{"id":1824,"date":"2014-02-01T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/02\/01\/i-like-this-city-administrator\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:35","slug":"i-like-this-city-administrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1824","title":{"rendered":"I Like This City Administrator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12239,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hamilton,_Missouri&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Hamilton,_Missouri&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12240,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.missouriquiltco.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12241,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/SB10001424052702303277704579349133544709954&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/SB10001424052702303277704579349133544709954&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12242,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/MissouriQuiltCo\\\/videos&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/user\\\/MissouriQuiltCo\\\/videos&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nHamilton is a small town in the northwest part of Missouri. Its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hamilton,_Missouri\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chief claim to fame<\/a> is that it is the birthplace of J. C. Penney and that the high school named after Penney traditionally has had a very good football team.<\/p>\n<p>It is also now getting a lot of attention in quilting circles for being the home of Jenny Doan and her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.missouriquiltco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Missouri Star Quilt Company<\/a>. This 5-year old company is now the second largest employer in town and gets 30,000 orders monthly for quilt kits and other quilting supplies. It was the focus of a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303277704579349133544709954\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feature story in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Because of the popularity of Mrs. Doan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MissouriQuiltCo\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube tutorials<\/a> and her quilt supplies, the town is now getting 50-100 visitors daily seeking to meet her and shop in the Missouri Star Quilt Co. store. Many of these quilters are women who arrive with their non-quilting spouses. The city administrator says they love all these tourist but really need to do something for the bored husbands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>City Administrator Dale Wallace says the tourism is great, and that maybe the town just needs to patch up its array of amenities. &#8220;For example, we really need to find something for the men to do,&#8221; he said of the husbands who sometimes come in tow with their quilting spouses. <b>&#8220;Maybe we&#8217;ll put in a gun shop.&#8221;<\/b><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that is a right-thinking city administrator!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton is a small town in the northwest part of Missouri. Its chief claim to fame is that it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2718,2719],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hamilton-mo","tag-missouri-star-quilt-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9700,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}